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Kaepernick Foundation donates $25K to group formed to honor convicted cop killer

Kaepernick Foundation donates $25K to group formed to honor convicted cop killer

Colin Kaepernick started out taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, but his activism has since expanded to encompass a wide range of leftist causes, including a group named after a convicted cop-killer.

The Colin Kaepernick Foundation donated in April $25,000 to Assata’s Daughters, a Chicago “direct action” resistance organization honoring Assata Shakur, who escaped prison and fled to Cuba after being found guilty in the 1973 murder of Officer Werner Foerster.

The grant includes $2,500 for CopWatch, a program that trains volunteers to follow and video police, and $15,000 for teen training, part of the group’s commitment to “develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata.”

Apparently Mr. Kaepernick is also a fan: He retweeted a July 16 message wishing Shakur a happy birthday.

The contribution came as part of Mr. Kaepernick’s pledge last year to donate $1 million over 10 months to “organizations working in oppressed communities.”

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So far he has given $900,000 in grants to 31 organizations, including apolitical services like Meals on Wheels as well as advocacy groups pushing a left-of-center agenda on issues like abortion, climate change, criminal-justice reform and immigration.

Contributions include $25,000 for 350.org, a climate-change group dedicated to fighting fossil fuels, and $25,000 for the Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-choice advocacy organization.

The foundation gave $50,000 in December for a “health clinic partnership” at the now-defunct Dakota Access pipeline protest, and $25,000 to United We Dream in order to “keep DACA in force,” referring to President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order.

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback also has close ties to the Women’s March, including organizers Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour.

The Kaepernick Foundation donated in June $25,000 to the Gathering for Justice NYC, headed by Ms. Perez, while Ms. Mallory and Ms. Sarsour appeared at the Aug. 24 pro-Kaepernick rally outside NFL headquarters.

Part of the Kaepernick Foundation’s $33,000 donation for the Lower East Side Girls Club was designated for travel and lodging for the Women’s March convention in October.

The Women’s March returned the favor with a shoutout Sunday on Facebook with a post saying, “#TaketheKnee [is] on the right side of history today — not just NFL players, but all of YOU. Show your support for the athletes siding with justice.”

The Women’s March has its own Shakur connection: The group came under fire in July for a tweet celebrating the birthday of Shakur. Shakur was placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list as a “domestic terrorist” who belonged to an “extremist group,” the Black Revolutionary Army.

The backlash included a tweet from Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, who said, “Unbelievable that anyone would idolize a cop killer.”

Assata’s Daughters has been upfront about its admiration for Shakur, saying on its website that it “carries on the tradition of radical liberatory activism encompassed by Assata Shakur.”

“Basically our organization is a part of a much larger movement that is fighting for the abolition of prisons, police and anti-blackness itself,” said Assata’s Daughters adult coordinator in a video.

Shakur, who was wounded in the 1977 shootout on the New Jersey turnpike that left two dead, including the officer, has argued that her murder conviction and life sentence were part of a “political prosecution” at the hands of a “racist legal system.”

Formerly Joanne Chesimard, she has since become a martyr on the left, drawing support from high-profile activists, like Angela Davis.

In 2015, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called on the Obama administration to extradite her after normalizing relations with Cuba.

Assata’s Daughters described its role as “one of helping to escalate, deepen and sustain the Black Lives Matter movement.”

“We believe it is our duty to fight for our freedom,” the group says on its website. “We believe it is our duty to fight for freedom. We come together in struggle as radical Black feminists and organizers, under the shared respect, love and study of Assata Shakur.”

During the 2016 NFL season, Mr. Kaepernick touched off a political uproar over his refusal to stand for the national anthem, citing high-profile shootings of black men by police and what he called “systematic oppression” of U.S. minorities.

Mr. Kaepernick later faced criticism for his defense of former Cuban strongman Fidel Castro and wearing a T-shirt showing a 1960 meeting between Castro with Malcolm X.

What does one expect from a communist like Kaepernick, who worships Castro the communist, Che Guevara, who was an avowed Marxist and killed innocent people by firing squad, and his cops are pigs socks. Like I stated in previous columns, let Kaepernick move to Cuba, where he will have a one room apartment with no air conditioning, Kaepernick will have a filthy hospital to go, to, since he admires Castro’s National Health Care and he will lose his freedom of speech, under communism. Kaepernick can take the thugs in the NFL, who will not stand for our National Anthem, to Cuba with him. These thug trash amoeba brains will regret the day, they left the United States.

There is the real problem. krapperdick is too stupid to have orchestrated this himself, but his muslim girlfriend isn’t. You will notice that he didn’t develop any of this anti America bullspit until he became involved with her. Put them both on a leaky boat and shove it toward cuba.

This whole thing is too well-orchestrated to be an accident. Kaeperinck is a Muslim convert, married to a Muslim woman with a reputation for being radical.

My question it who is behind this? I smell CAIR, Obama and Jarrett. Behind those puppets are Soros and his little Alinskyite darling, Hillary.

The MO of Islamists and Communists is the same: to destroy the existing culture so it can be replaced with their satanic agenda. In attacking the national anthem, they are attacking the symbol of America’s ideals. By using the NFL, they are attacking middle class manhood. It’s no different from ISIS/al Qaeda destroying historic artifacts in the Middle East.

Withholding all financial support from these anti-American initiatives, including taxes that support the warped agendas in our public schools, is what must happen in addition to public protest at all political/bureaucratic meetings in our communities.

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

He’s using his favorite hand puppets (Hillary, Soros, etc.) to handle the details, but this is all clearly a coordinated series of attacks, led by Satan. He’s trying to overthrow America so his well-favored Antichrist can take over the world for the next 7 years.

America is not mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Something *really* bad happened to it. And since it’s glaringly obvious that the Rapture is coming up fast, Satan wants to get rid of America now.

The real enemy is Satan. The real answer is Jesus. Tick Tock. You don’t have the luxury of a few more years to ponder it. Today is the day of salvation. Don’t wait for it to be too late.

You are exactly right empd. krapperdick doesn’t have the mental capacity to come up with this elaborate communist plan. His muslim girlfriend is leading him around by his “little” head, and the rest are just taking advantage of his stupidity.

So Assata Shakur = Joanne Chesimard? I know that now. I remember vividly the NJ TPK crime, leaving an officer dead. Given refuge in Cuba, I often wondered why she was still alive…or even if she was. Knowing the history of this horrible story, it is beyond belief that anyone would consider that murderer a hero. And to make a foundation for this felon, obtain contributions and carry on as if nothing bad happened? Folk hero? NEVER. This is just awful, seeing these young people taking the blood money and learning from the very people who support this fugitive- very bad lessons. just so bad in so many way, I have no words.

The polarization of America is clearly in evidence here in this column. This is the legacy of barak obama – working for 8 years to foment hate among groups of Americans for each other. The blacks readily picked up on the charge and are running full speed ahead, pausing only momentarily to kneel in protest. Yes, obama reignited race relations into this inferno… That’s his lasting legacy.

Low-life vermin. Despicable insanity. Following the example of their namesake who wore socks with pigs in police uniforms being shot.

There are numerous groups working to reduce the black on black violence and murder rate in an inner city of America. The Kaepernick Foundation could have given them money. But no….

Black babies are being murdered in abortion in a great percentage that all other races. Dr. Alveda King calls it “genocide.” The Kaepernick Foundation could have given Crisis Pregnancy Centers money to help save the lives of children whose body parts are being sold. But no….

He is free to donate his money to whomever he wants. However, if he really wants to help young people in the black community he’d find a more worthy cause. Or, he would adopt (either legally or just through action) a few young at risk black children and provide for them so that they won’t go down a bad path. That, however, would require work and not just grandstanding.

Praire.. Can i donate to the KKK without it being seen as a hate crime? Can i donate to ISI or some other terror org without getting arrested?
NO..
WHY? Cause they are all criminal groups. AND IMO Supporting a group that HONORS an AVOWED COP KILLER and someone who still to this day, has never apoligized or done ONE LICK OF penance, should be considered the same thing.

Guess he isn’t planning on returning to the NFL anytime soon, eh? She must be some piece of a@@ to have inspired him to ruin his career and make stupid statements and stands that go against all reason. But I’ve seen guys do it before. (They usually regret it later.)

More proof he like BLM is nothing but a WORTHLESS TERRORIST and TRAITOR. He deserves a long drop with a short rope around his neck as do all these other TERRORISTS and TRAITORS the FOOLS who support him and BLM or any other lawless group and YES the worst of the Bunch the members of the ACLU who only help the worst criminals in the Nation.

I agree Dawg. ALL These “Social justice groups” that support criminal activities, ESPECIALLY those designed to change political structures ARE THE DAMN DEFINITION of a terror org.. And anyone that’s a member of it, should be seen as a terrorist…

Dr gadget..You are 100% correct..That is exactly where all current lawlessness and deception is coming from.. Read 2 timothy… The real truth is plain as day to those who are not blinded by the world and satan himself.. were unfixable now without God’s grace and direct intervention.. pray it comes quickly

Kaep hates whites, like obama hates whites. Imagine that. After “whitey” raised them and took care of them after their “baby daddy” dumped them on “whitey” and abandoned their “baby mommas”, they be pissed.

You’ve heard the arguments offered by lawyers and various spokesmen affiliated with the NFL, the major media, and the usual suspects, (cynical, pandering, opportunistic politicians), that the “protests” have nothing to do with disrespecting the flag, the military, law enforcement, etc., etc., while offering rather vague descriptions of just what said protests are against, while, from the instigator of the “take a knee” campaign, Kaepernick, further exposes the lie by openly praising and supporting racism and murder. Sooner or later, the dawning will come, and at least some of the participants, acting with mob mentality and likely not even knowing what it’s really about, will regret their herd-like actions.

This *** cop hater somehow thinks he’s being a patriotic American. What a joke he is! I put him right up there with Michael Moore and Stephen Colbert. Opportunists looking to cash-in on the left’s current anti-American movement. I’m sure their mommies are proud of the trash they brought into this world. For them I would have made an exception for my disapproval of abortions.